About me and my treatment approach

I offer a treatment approach to people affected with the challenges of osteoarthritis that is evidence-based, but nearly never used by therapists.

Motion is the spice of life, of course, and when people gain movement they thought they've completely lost, and experience ease in their bodies, this is priceless. I find it personally very rewarding and this is especially true working for people affected with osteoarthritis.

In my general practice for all forms of musculoskeletal pain, I use hands-on soft tissue, various forms of stretches, joint mobilisation and sometimes joint manipulation (aka “cracking”). All of this with your understanding and consent, whatever you're comfortable with, and that which I assess as safe, given your medical history and health on the day. No tricky surprises.

When I give exercises, I like them to be as close to as simple as falling out of bed. There will not be hours to do, just what is needed for the meaningful movements and goal you desire to attain.

I have a personal movement history of Tai Chi and Kung Fu, yoga, cricket and swimming, soccer, salsa. I play guitar and piano for my own pleasure.

Laser for musculoskeletal healing

I've brought Laser to clinic for assisting treatment for pretty much any injury, and osteoarthritis. In acute injuries (ie: less than three days from the injury) its results have impressed me greatly with less pain and swelling. The laser, from the Swiss company Irradia, is a non-heating device designed for deep tissue penetration at a 904 nm wavelength and 60 millivolts power. It can have anti-inflammatory, analgesic and pro-healing effects.

For chronic issues like tendinopathy and osteoarthritis, it needs frequent applications for longer periods, up to six treatments over a two or three week period, before I can fairly say if there is a benefit or not. If we asses this modality as worth trying, then several brief treatments per week can be organised instead of the more lengthy 30 minute return consults.